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Schlesische Kleinbahn AG/
Walker/Schuckert bogie tram #?
1919 - Konigshutte (now Chorzow) – Beuthener Strasse. A Walker car heading from Gliwice passes through Chorzow Rynek. By now, the tramway company was known as Schlesische Kleinbahn A.G. and under German control. The real bell on the front of the tram is clearly visible. Once the Walker cars had gone, other large, centre entrance LHB trams took over on some of the narrow gauge routes, the last of which lasted (amazingly) until 1951. This place looks very different today! Publisher: Paul Gaertner.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 5
Bremen/Hansa Waggonfabrik tram #?
1937 - Katowice – Rynek. Another interesting postcard of old Katowice. I can’t identify the very nice bus, but I expect one of our TWB experts will know. The tram and matching trailer are 1928 German-built Bremen type and the track is standard gauge. The tracks here were re-gauged from 1929 onwards, and for some years both narrow and standard gauge trams served central Katowice.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 8
Walker/Schuckert bogie tram #250
1918 - Katowice – Friedrich Platz. A Walker car of Schlesische Kleinbahn A.G. stands at the terminal point outside the Katowice Theatre. Although the postcard is hand coloured, the colour scheme of the tram is extremely accurate. In narrow gauge days, all Silesian trams were double ended.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 6
Walker/Schuckert bogie tram #254
1922 - Katowice – Rynek. The publisher of this German-period postcard has kindly labelled everything for us, so it needs little explanation from me. Schlesische Kleinbahn Walker car #254 stands at the terminal point outside the theatre. Narrow gauge trams finished here because in Friedrichstrasse were standard gauge tracks and the two didn’t meet.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
1939 - Beuthen (Bytom) – A-H Platz. Today’s historic picture is from Bytom when it was still a German city and shows trams of two gauges side-by-side. The tram on the right is a standard gauge Linke Hoffmann car (built in 1913 at their factory in Goerlitz for the Bytom tramway company - Stadische Strassenbahn Beuthen or SSB), whilst on the left a 785mm gauge Walker car of the original Oberschlesische Kleinbahnen fleet turns the corner. By this time, the narrow gauge lines were operated by Schlesische Kleinbahn. This was once a town full of these 1900s buildings - very different now…….. Fot: Hermann Reinshagen.
Author: dvigar
Author: dvigar
Comments: 5